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Athenai: 1935. Paperback. photos & illustrations (1 folding), 176p. 22cm. Wrapper unevenly browned & somewhat worn. Unopened. INSCRIBED (in French) by Denaxas. Greek text. Appears to involve travel on a sailing vessel. More
Athenai: 1935. Paperback. photos & illustrations (1 folding), 176p. 22cm. Wrapper unevenly browned & somewhat worn. Unopened. INSCRIBED (in French) by Denaxas. Greek text. Appears to involve travel on a sailing vessel. More
Cambridge: Harvard, 1965. 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations, map (on endpapers), index, xv, 216p. dj. 23cm. Jacket scuffed along joints & top edge. INSCRIBED by Dodge (to Chiang Yee). Dodge was director of Salem's Peabody Museum. As might be expected, there is some emphasis on Salem mariners and the Fiji Islands..... More
n.p. Atlantic Mutual, [1974]. Hardcover. folding map, folding table, index, xxvii, [3], 261p. Blue cloth. Card slipcase. 26cm. No jacket (probably as published). Reprint of the 1942 edition with a brief unsigned new Foreword. More
New York: Derrydale Press, 1937. Hardcover. Hardcover in original cloth. Joints lightened and slightly scuffed. Gift inscription. No Jacket. Copy No. 453 of an edition limited to 950 numbered copies. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1977). 1st ed. Hardcover. index, [viii], 294p. Hardcover. dj. 23cm. Review slip laid in. More
[London]: 1822. Paperback. 11p. Softcover report. No separate wrapper present. 33cm. At head of title: IV. Inked numbers added on each page, presumably to page this continuously with other documents. The Sylphe was captured near Cape Verde with a cargo of 368 slaves bound for Guadaloupe. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 vols. frontises, illustrations, maps, (includes a large folding map in back of Vol. 2 and a folding map in back pocket of Vol. 2), xv, 428, xii, 444p. Original decorated blue cloth. 24 cm. Cover rubbed along extremities with chipping..... More
Hartford: Printed for Henry C. Taylor by Carl P. Rollins, 1955. Hardcover. illustration, 2 folding maps, (24p.), 95p. Cloth-backed boards. 31cm. No Jacket. Edition limited to 560 copies. More
Austin: Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas, 1955. Paperback. xvii, 186p. Wrapper. 23cm. Backstrip browned. Moderate cover soil. Name on front. Research Monograph No. 16. More
New York: J. P. Beckwith, 1845. 1st ed. Hardcover. xv, [ii]-iv, [1], 6-199p. 16mo. Original dark cloth. 16 cm. Backstrip slightly faded and has a tiny chip at top. Contents have mostly moderate foxing (heaviest on endpapers and first several leaves). Isaacs spent 20 years at sea (probably from 1795..... More
n.p. 1959. Paperback. Oddly paginated but probably a total of 80+ pages. Stapled in upper left corner. No separate wrapper. 27cm. Former owner's name on front. The "and Associates" added to the author's name in ink. There are several stamps or legends on the title-page: (1) administratively restricted; (2) not..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1900. Hardcover. frontis, photos, 2 maps (1 folding), 284p. Gray pictorial cloth. 19cm. Extremities rubbed (minor fraying at corners). Name on endpaper (pencil). Text moderately browned. No Jacket. More
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, (c. 1932). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, index, 239p. Original green cloth. 22cm. Moderate cover scuffing and wear. Back endpaper cracked and reglued along hinge. Front cover lightened where a "Boots" library sticker was removed. No jacket. More
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1883. 1st ed. Hardcover. 288p. Original cloth. 23cm. Cover has only minor soiling and a few modest black smudges. Keane, b3st remembered for his "Meccah" and "Medinah" books, appears to have been a sailor, journalist, adventurer and eventually a landowner in Australia. Keane's brief Preface for this..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations, map on endpapers. Original illustrated yellow cloth. 28cm. Cover sound but soiled and rather worn. No Jacket. More
Tokyo: Kinkodo Publishing Co., 1905. Paperback. portrait, photos & illustrations, 160p. Original red cloth-backed wrapper. 19cm. Repaired tear on inside of front cover. More
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1955). First published in 1937. Hardcover. frontis, photos, index, xi, 483p. Original blue cloth. 24cm. Extensive light cover spotting. Minor foxing in text; heavier on page edges. No jacket. More
London: T. Cooper, 1739 [misprinted as MDCCXXIXX]. 1st ed. Hardcover. (4), 48, 41-56, 65-76p. Attractive modern quarterbinding with marbled boards. 20cm. Stain in center of half-title and title leaves. Half-title present in facsimile. Horizontal split on title-page repaired with thin archival tape. Contents otherwise sound. Discussion of relations with Spain..... More
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 2 folding maps, index, xvi, 361p. Original blue cloth. 22cm. Endpapers split at hinges. Front and back covers almost completely detached. Backstrip detached and a bit ragged along back edge. Spine slightly sloped. Covers also rubbed (with some loss of..... More
New York: Hillman-Curl, 1937. Hardcover. 414p. Original blue cloth. dj. 21 cm. Jacket chipped around edges and slightly soiled, and also has, along top of front panel a narrow label ("Recommended by The Book-of-the-Month Club"). Bookseller's name stamped in blue in lower right corner of front pastedown. Translated by F...... More
Boston: Privately Printed, 1924. Hardcover. frontis and 7 other illustrations, vi, [4], 46p. Original blue cloth. 25cm. No jacket. Introduction by Thomas Perkins. Edition limited to 475 copies. More
London: Methuen & Co., (c. 1927). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, xvii, 229, 8p. Original blue cloth. 22cm. Backstrip faded. Edges of cover faded. Spine slightly sloped. No jacket. More
Tokyo: Togo Gensui Publishing Society, 1937. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. About 80 pages of unnumbered photos and illustrations at beginning, [4], 4, 347, [1]p. Decorated cloth. 31cm. Rubbing and minor fraying along joints and extremities. No Jacket. The first edition of this adulatory work appears to have been published..... More
Washington: 1917. Paperback. 110p. Wrapper. 24cm. Cover browning around edges. 64th Congress, 2d Session, House Document No. 2112. More
London: Addey, W. Stevens, n.d. [1860?]. Hardcover. 4 tinted illustrations, tinted plates, 256p. Original red cloth. 17cm. The 4 tinted illustrations in this volume vary from at least some of the tinted illustrations in the 1856 Cincinnati edition of this work. Backstrip faded. Cover somewhat soiled and has several subdued..... More